National Informatics Centre

National Informatics Centre, An Organization under the Department Of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, engaged in providing complete I.T. solutions to the Government machinery at all layers.National Informatics Centre, Nagapattinam, An arm of the above  Organization providing the same line of services to District Administration since its inception. Being the Nations' Nodal ICT service provider NIC provides world class state of the art ICT solutions to various layers of the Administration. The Present Services include Email, INTRANET, INTERNET on Broadband, File Sharing , Central Printing Facilities , Video Conference, Webcasting

INFRASTRUCTURE

1. This office is equipped with a full fledged High speed Communication to the Globe via 34 MBPS leased circuit
2. It is also supported by a Ku-Band based FTDMA V-SAT
3. A Linux  Database server with open source database engines
4. A Linux 8.0 Server hosting the  Proxy  and Standby support to TNSWAN Services
5. An Windows 2000 Server hosting Local Web based Applications  and Database Requirements
6. Two windows 2000 clients on LAN for windows Applications/Services support / Development
7. A Ubuntu LTS server hosting INTRANET and open source Applications on INTRANET

LAN Setup at District Collectorate

A Local Area Network has been setup serving up to a total 16 nodes currently and serving all kinds of TCP/IP based services like Email , file sharing, devices sharing in side the Office

A Structured Local Area Network flows over all the four floors and its sixteen wings of this Collectorate Master Complex. This houses Sixteen Number 10/100 MBPS Switches located one each at each wing of Each Floor, all Inter Connected and connected back to a switch at NIC for routing of INTERNET services. The Main Switch, also has a standby to take care of its failure in order to achieve Zero Down Time.

This Master LAN, which also connects other Small LAN’s established at NIC, Election Computer Centre, DRDA and Forest is currently serving more than fifty clients in total. This LAN also has a Print Server which has three Printers including one Line Printer (600 LPM) in its hand to meet the printing requirements arising out in LAN. This LAN is currently integrated with the TNSWAN, A State wide Network established under the National initiative, NeGP (National E-Governance Plan).

The TNSWAN provides vertical connectivity from state to District and from district to Taluks as well as blocks. In Nagapattinam District , The District Headquarters connects all the seven Taluks of the district and the Eleven Blocks along with two Revenue Divisional Offices as well as the Collector's Camp Office. TNSWAN also has Closed networks for individual Departments viz. Treasury, Health and Transport etc.,This enables individual departments to host and run their domain specific applications in a secure manner and expose only few of its schemas to the internet which are required by Public.

INTRANET Services

An Intranet Server containing all required local information like District email Directory, Telephone Directory, Tour Programmes of Collector/D.R.O , Village Directory etc., and utility forms is running and being updated regularly to cater to local information requirements. A Media Collection which serves key videos about the District. A Photo Gallery which has wide classified collections photoes of Important Places,Key Events etc.,. This also Internal web based File Manager, a repository of key Documents